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* BiggerOnTheInside: Maggie's scrabble bag is barely as long as her forearm, but when she wants to pull out some tiles she needs to stick her arm in almost up to her shoulder to reach them. The sight of it predictably weirds out everyone who witnesses it.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Maggie's scrabble Scrabble bag is barely as long as her forearm, but when she wants to pull out some tiles she needs to stick her arm in almost up to her shoulder to reach them. The sight of it predictably weirds out everyone who witnesses it.
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* ChekhovsGun: The bats in the Shorter Way Bridge. Not to mention the gun-shaped paperweight labeled "Property of A. Chekhov." Although the latter doesn't count [[ExactWords technically]] -- it doesn't get ''fired'' (but used).
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* ChekhovsGun: The bats in the Shorter Way Bridge. Not to mention the gun-shaped paperweight labeled "Property of A. Chekhov." Chekhov" on Maggie's desk in her office at the library. Although the latter doesn't count [[ExactWords technically]] -- it doesn't get ''fired'' (but used).''fired'', but it is used [[spoiler:by Vic to hold off the police after Maggie's murder]].
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Christmasland. ItIt looks like a holiday paradise at first, but the kids inhabiting it have become sadistic little monsters due to their time with Manx.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: How Bing is introduced, pleasuring himself with the help of a 1940s-era men's magazine from his father's collection.
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* TheManInTheMoon: The moon in Christmasland has Charlie Manx's face, and actually screams at one point during the Inscape's destruction.
* TheManInTheMoon: The moon in Christmasland has Charlie Manx's face, and actually screams at one point during the Inscape's destruction.
* NiceHat: Maggie sports a stylish fedora as part of her unusual outfit, which include a necklace of beer can tabs and a pair of earrings made from Scrabble tiles. She still wears it as an adult, even though it's now battered and filthy. [[spoiler:Manx takes it as a trophy after killing her.]]
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** Tabitha Hutter may be a reference to the character Hutter (the Johnathan Harker stand-in) from the 1922 film ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. Tabitha is also the name of the author's mother.
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** Tabitha Hutter may be a reference to the character Hutter (the Johnathan Jonathan Harker stand-in) from the 1922 film ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. Tabitha is also the name of the author's mother.
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* SpeechImpediment: Maggie has a stammer, a side effect of using her tiles which gets worse the more she does.
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* SpeechImpediment: Maggie has a stammer, a side effect of using her tiles which gets worse the more she does.does it.
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* WalkingTechBane: Manx, or rather his Wraith, make lights, TV and radio go on the fritz just by coming vaguely near them; it's regularly used to announce their imminent arrival. This is eventually revealed to be a common occurrence around Strong Creatives (like Manx, Vic, and Maggie) who are using their powers.
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* WalkingTechBane: Manx, or rather his Wraith, can make lights, TV and radio go on the fritz just by coming vaguely near them; it's regularly used to announce their imminent arrival. This is eventually revealed to be a common occurrence around Strong Creatives (like Manx, Vic, and Maggie) who are using their powers.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[spoiler:Vic kills Bing by igniting a tank of sevoflurane anesthetic he is carrying. That compound exists in real life, but is non-flammable.]]
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ArtisticLicenseChemistry: [[spoiler:Vic kills Bing by igniting a tank of sevoflurane anesthetic he is carrying. That compound exists in real life, but is non-flammable.]]
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[spoiler:Vic kills Bing by igniting a tank of sevoflurane anesthetic he is carrying. That compound exists in real life, but is non-flammable.]]
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Bing kidnaps Vic with the intent of killing her to get back on Charlie's bad side. Before doing so, it's implied he wants to rape her first but she escapes.
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: IHaveYouNowMyPretty:
** Bing kidnaps Vic with the intent of killing her to get back on Charlie's bad side. Before doing so, it's implied he wants to rape her first but she escapes.
** Bing kidnaps Vic with the intent of killing her to get back on Charlie's bad side. Before doing so, it's implied he wants to rape her first but she escapes.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Vic and Bing start out as friends in the series.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** Vic and Bing start out as friends in theseries.series.
** Lou is Wayne's stepfather rather than his biological father.
** Vic and Bing start out as friends in the
** Lou is Wayne's stepfather rather than his biological father.
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* ManInTheMoon: The moon in Christmasland has Charlie Manx's face, and actually screams at one point during the Inscape's destruction.
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* ManInTheMoon: TheManInTheMoon: The moon in Christmasland has Charlie Manx's face, and actually screams at one point during the Inscape's destruction.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Christmasland.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Christmasland. It
* DentedIron: Vic accumulates injuries and ailments throughout the novel. Her mental state is severely affected by both using her Inscape and the trauma from her first encounter with Manx. Later one of her knees is damaged to the point where it can't bend, she's in the middle of an explosion that kills Bing, and later one of Charlie's vampire children bites a chunk out of her shoulder. She keeps fighting though, and it takes both being stabbed by a different child ''and'' the collapse of her inscape to finally kill her, and even so she manages to escape Christmasland before finally succumbing to her wounds.
* ManInTheMoon: The moon in Christmasland has Charlie Manx's face, and actually screams at one point during the Inscape's destruction.
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** Charlie Manx has a Rolls Royce Wraith that can travel to Christmasland. It also keeps him young... and consumes his (and later others') soul.
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** Charlie Manx has a Rolls Royce Wraith that can travel to Christmasland. It also keeps him young... and consumes his (and later others') soul. He can also control it with his mind.
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* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Manx dies in prison after the Wraith, which is heavily damaged, has its engine removed. He later wakes up ''after'' his autopsy when the unwitting Nathan Demeter, who was restoring the Wraith as a pet project, replaced the engine.
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* SelfHarm: Near the end of the book Maggie's arms are covered in scars from cigarette burns. It turns out they are self-inflicted, as the intense bursts of pain help her control her worsening stammer and let her use her Scrabble tiles (which has been getting harder to do).
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Defied. Maggie claims to be perfectly fine with people pitying her, as long as she gets something out of it.
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* VillainousCrush: Manx develops a weird... ''thing'' for Vic. It doesn't make him stop hating her or anything, but then [[HemanWomanHater he pretty much hates all women anyway.]]
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: There's nothing particularly wrong with the name "Bruce." Unless your middle name is [[Franchise/{{Batman}} "Wayne"]] because your father is ''a giant freaking dork.''
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* MiddleNameBasis: Wayne's full name is Bruce Wayne Carmody.
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* ActionMom: The climax sees Vic [[spoiler: roaring around Christmasland on a motorcycle and throwing explosives left and right, and then outracing both the devestation and a pursuing Manx with her son behind her on the saddle.]] Suffice to say, she qualifies for the trope.
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* LikeParentLikeChild: In the end, Vic admits that she's much like her father - not all bad, but never as good a parent or a person as she should have been. [[spoiler: On the other hand, they also both show that when the chips are down, they ''will'' come through for their child, to the point of laying down their lives.]]
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* MamaBear: Don't mess with Wayne. Vic ''will'' find you, and you ''will'' be sorry.
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* InformedFlaw: We're repeatedly told that Vic is a terrible mother with serious mental problems, but we rarely see her be anything but a quite good mother who's just perpetually depressed. It's implied that all her real screwups happened in the years between chapters, but we never get see them or even hear more than passing references to them. The one instance where Vic did act crazy was in burning her house down - which is, admittedly, a pretty ''big'' screwup, but it seems less like the result of an inherent flaw and more an effect of being driven to drunkenness and despair by years of Manx's children harrassing her.
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* InformedFlaw: We're repeatedly told that Vic is a terrible mother with serious mental problems, but we rarely see her be anything but a quite good mother who's just perpetually depressed. It's implied that all her real screwups happened in the years between chapters, but we never get to see them or even hear more than passing references to them. The one instance where Vic did act crazy was in burning her house down - which is, admittedly, a pretty ''big'' screwup, but it seems less like the result of an inherent flaw and more an effect of being driven to drunkenness and despair by years of Manx's children harrassing her.
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* BigBeautifulMan: Vic is physically attracted to Lou in spite of his obesity; she likes the way he smells and the way his body feels against hers.
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* IncrediblyLameFun: Tabitha is such a neat freak that she gets "a private, almost guilty, pleasure from defragmenting her hard drive."
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* InformedFlaw: We're repeatedly told that Vic is a terrible mother with serious mental problems, but we rarely see her be anything but a quite good mother who's just perpetually depressed. It's implied that all her real screwups happened in the years between chapters, but we never get see them or even hear more than passing references to them. The one instance where Vic did act crazy was in burning her house down - which is, admittedly, a pretty ''big'' screwup, but it seems less like the result of an inherent flaw and more an effect of being driven to drunkenness and despair by years of Manx's children harrassing her.
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* CentralTheme: What does it mean to grow up? [[GrowingUpSucks What do we lose when we do so?]] What do we gain? What would it mean to stay young and innocent forever?
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* ImmortalityImmorality: Manx can extend his life by feeding the Wraith someone's humanity and capacity for empathy. He first gave up his own to it, then went on to sacrifice that of other people.
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** Also the case for Vic and Maggie, who were cool outsiders with magic powers as children and teens, but who as asults turned into a drunken basket case and a drug-addicted homeless prostitute, respectively. Vic at one point muses sorrowfully that she really liked the girl she was at eight and also that she very unlike that girl now.
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** Also the case for Vic and Maggie, who were cool outsiders with magic powers as children and teens, but who as asults adults turned into a drunken basket case and a drug-addicted homeless prostitute, respectively. Vic at one point muses sorrowfully that she really liked the girl she was at eight and also that she is very unlike that girl now.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Subverted with Bing. He seems like this at first, being mentally disabled, coming from a background of parental abuse, and being the victim of Manx's lies and manipulation. As the story goes on, though, he gets ''way'' too into doing Manx's dirty work and starts coming across as every bit as much of an irredeemable monster as Manx himself.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Played for tragedy. Wayne ''tries'' to love his parents, and sometimes succeeds, but he deeply wishes that his father wasn't so fat, dorky and unsuccessful. Oh, and that his mother wasn't ''insane.''
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* GrowingUpSucks: Manx and Bing believe that they are 'rescuing' children from this.
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* GrowingUpSucks: GrowingUpSucks:
** Manx and Bing believe that they are 'rescuing' children fromthis.this.
** Also the case for Vic and Maggie, who were cool outsiders with magic powers as children and teens, but who as asults turned into a drunken basket case and a drug-addicted homeless prostitute, respectively. Vic at one point muses sorrowfully that she really liked the girl she was at eight and also that she very unlike that girl now.
** Manx and Bing believe that they are 'rescuing' children from
** Also the case for Vic and Maggie, who were cool outsiders with magic powers as children and teens, but who as asults turned into a drunken basket case and a drug-addicted homeless prostitute, respectively. Vic at one point muses sorrowfully that she really liked the girl she was at eight and also that she very unlike that girl now.
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* EvilOldFolks: Manx is over a hundred years old, and [[GlamourFailure at least some of the time]] he looks it.
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Manx claims to have it. Sure, the parents he "rescued" children from might not have been abusive ''yet,'' but he supposedly foresaw a future when they would become so.
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* CastFromHitPoints: Using one's special abilities too often leads to worsening physical or mental problems.
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* RescueRomance: Lou helped Vic escape from Manx, and they ended up getting together after.
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* RescueRomance: Lou helped Vic escape from Manx, and they ended up getting together after.
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* EvilCounterpart: Bing to Lou. They are both fat, not too bright, and somewhat child-like in their thinking. However, Lou is good-hearted and responsible (if not always sensible), while Bing is Manx's willing accomplice.
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* RescueRomance: Lou helped Vic escape from Manx, and they ended up getting together after.
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Monster Sob Story has been disambiguated. Please rewrite the entry with a more appropriate trope.
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* MonsterSobStory: The series has numerous scenes where one can't help but feel at least a bit sorry for Manx and Bing, like when the former can barely walk anymore after his Wraith gets heavily damaged, or when Bing despairs just outside the gate to Christmasland because Manx still denies him entry.
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* BadassGay: Maggie Leigh.
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A television adaptation was made for Creator/{{AMC}}, which began to air in June 2019 starring Creator/ZacharyQuinto as Manx.
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A television adaptation was made for Creator/{{AMC}}, which began to air in June 2019 starring Creator/ZacharyQuinto as Manx.
Manx. After two seasons, it was cancelled.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Manx’s mother and wife are considerably more sympathetic than in the source material. In ‘’Wraith’’, both are depicted as being cruel and even abusive at times; Charlie’s mother, for example, would make him sleep in a coffin.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Manx’s mother and wife are considerably more sympathetic than in the source material. In ‘’Wraith’’, ''Wraith'', both are depicted as being cruel and even abusive at times; Charlie’s Charlie's mother, for example, would make him sleep in a coffin.
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* ContinuityNod: Manx mentions Dewey Hansom as being one of his former helpers. Dewey appeared in the comic ‘’Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland’’.
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* ContinuityNod: Manx mentions Dewey Hansom as being one of his former helpers. Dewey appeared in the comic ‘’Wraith: ''Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland’’.Christmasland''.
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* BittersweetEnding: Much like the novel. [[spoiler: Vic and Maggie destroy Christmasland, Manx is dead, Lou officially adopts Wayne and all of the children he kidnapped are free and human again. Unfortunately, Vic and Wayne now have long lasting trauma, Maggie and Tabitha break up, and Millie Manx is still alive, with plans to rebuild Christmasland.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Much like the novel. [[spoiler: Vic and Maggie destroy Christmasland, Manx is dead, Lou officially adopts Wayne and all of the children he kidnapped are free and human again. Unfortunately, Vic and Wayne now have long lasting long-lasting trauma, Maggie and Tabitha break up, and Millie Manx is still alive, with plans to rebuild Christmasland.]]
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* SoulJar: [[spoiler:The ornaments near the entry to Christmasland turn out to hold the souls of the children Manx has taken. Only by smashing them will they be freed.]]
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* {{Matricide}}: Millie killed her own mother after turning evil.
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** [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s revealed to have killed his mother.
** Millie killed her own mother after turning evil.
** [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s revealed to have killed his mother.
** Millie killed her own mother after turning evil.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s revealed to have killed his mother.
